Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-12-29

IO ao oot hcSu w 90 phCh xuuCn Do
yond the opening year of the sos to
reach the time when the farming popu-
lace OF this section ct Dakota and Ne
braska, discouraged and Impoverished
through long series of seasons as grow.
ers of wheat, began to turn their atten-
tion and their efforts to corn, hogs and
cattle. Year after year they had sown
wheat and grown wheat and harvested
and marketed wheat. The yield WAS
uniformly good and the quality the best.
Yet the farmers became poorer and the
mortgage became larger. It was only q
question Of time when the money lender
would own the land and the farmer be.
come his tenant. And then, through the
same process of reduction descending,
the money lenders round dollars would
seed the soil and the harvest would turn
only halves into his hopper. By the
sweat of their broHs these sturdy delivers
did not even earn their bread. Business
of all kinds sympathized with the fail.
ing condition Of the agriculturalist and
everything was at a low ebb.
It became evident that nature had de-
signed these fat lands for something else
than the production of the so-called staff
OF life. Where every acre was teeming
with unsurpassed fertility labor should
not go unrequited. Already the fret
experiments In corn growing had
brought success beyond expectation and
as the years went on our farmers began
TO realize that corn was the naturel
staple Of this section, and to corn they
gave their time and their labor. After
the introduction Of the new product
came gradually the developments OF the
stock industry and though progress was
SLOW, because Of the poverty OF the pro-
duners, each year and its results demon
strated the wisdom Of the change. Herds
increased with wonderful rspidity and
in time the hog and the steer asserted
their dominion. Cornfelds became
numerous and covered large areas oi
land once devoted to wheat and of land
fresh from under the virgin sed OF The
prairie. The farmers' herds grew and
multiplied on the native grasses and fat.
tened on the products oil, their fields and
always found ready market at large
profits. The once poverty stricken far
mer experienced the ease which plenty
oficash brings and the mortgage dimin-
ished as it had increased under the old
regime. Improvements followed il
buildings, in fences, IN methods of farm.
ing and in mode Of life. Business 70
vived under the impulse and the full
1 tide OF prosperity came.
| Thus in ten yesrs, under The. .dispensa
tion Of King Corn, has prosperity oom'
| where poverty and discouragement ono,
i reigned. 1t is enough to say in behal
Of the adaptability OF climatic and sol
conditions to the production OF corn ii
this region chat in the ten years devote,
| TO its culture, in . yearly increasing ratio
| there has not been . single failure in th
crop, or anything approaching . failure
Esch season has brought an abundan
yield. Through dry seasons and in we
! seasons there has been little variation Ii
> quantity and quality. Ours is peculin
soil formation. The rain surplus /
stored away in its ample depths, to b
drawn rpon during the prevaiencs I
. drouths. II is vast sponge whio
holds and feeds as the demand is mad
{ upon the reserve store. SO We 60 0
eiyear 6y year raising oorn and cattle an
9 Aogs and bscoming richer 90 tim
cashiers its fragments into the past. FL
q this section the period OF experiments
J ioyer. We have solved the design {